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I've seen a good business study that argues McDonalds is a real estate company with food products as a loss-leader.
by bandrami 3y ago
I've seen a good business study that argues McDonalds is a real estate company with food products as a loss-leader.
- okeuro49 3y agoThis was the plot of the film "The Founder" on the founding of McDonalds. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4276820/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4276820/
- preommr 3y agoThere's a good scene in "The Founder" that covers that concept [0] [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+mcdonalds+you%27re+in+the+real+estate&oq=youtube+mcdonalds+you%27re+in+the+real+estate&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORigATIGCAEQRRhA0gEINzgyM2owajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:15a5e3f3,vid:uxCL2RqCuiY,st:0 https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+mcdonalds+you%27re+i...
- lordnacho 3y agoIt's a general business trope, isn't it? Ford is a pension fund that happens to make cars. Berkshire Hathaway is an insurance company that makes a lot of investments. A supermarket is a bank that sells food. GE at one point was also more or less a financial company that sold industrial goods. I guess the thing is once you take a financial view of how a business works, a lot of things don't look like what they normally look like.
- bandrami 3y agoI know at one point GM cars were mostly used to sell GMAC financing, though I think that particular inversion has stopped now.
- sgt101 3y agoThere was this event, it happened in 2008 and it stopped the GMAC thing like the full stop stops this comment.
- pjc50 3y agoPeople complain about "ZIRP", but it did reduce the benefits of co-mingling finance with retail and decoupled consumer credit from being quite so critical to sales.
- Shawnj2 3y agoAmazon is a cloud computing company that uses its resources to host an online shopping website
- FireBeyond 3y agoHarvard is a hedge fund that occasionally educates people.